Centering Prayer 2020

Centering Prayer is a 20th century revival of the long-established tradition of contemplative prayer in the Christian church.  Once practiced only by monks and nuns in abbeys, 21^st Century Centering prayer brings the Christian contemplative tradition to everyone.

At Celebration, we meet and pray in silence for three, twenty-minute sessions with two, five-minute silent walks between the second and third prayers.  This method is described in Thomas Keating’s writings in Open Mind, Open Heart.  Our facilitator is commissioned by Contemplative Outreach, Ltd.  Our members come from a variety of Christian traditions in the South Sound area.

Centering Prayer at Celebration is growing and with that growth, we have new meeting schedules.

The 11:30 am group has grown to the point that we will now meet year-round at this time.

The evening group has occasionally overlapped with other church activities, so we feel this is a good opportunity to move the evening time up an hour to decrease the overlap.

The Wednesday evening group will now meet at 5:30 pm beginning with Ash Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020.

Holiday changes for 2020 are as follows:

• There will be no Centering Prayer on Nov. 25, 2020; the day before Thanksgiving

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